Tom Cruise is to star in a World War II thriller about a plot to assassinate Adolph Hitler, it has been reported.
The 44-year-old Mission Impossible star will take a central role of the untitled film, which will be directed by Bryan Singer of The Usual Suspects and Superman Returns fame, reports said.
The movie is based on a real-life plot hatched by German generals to kill Hitler during World War II.
In related news, Margaret Thatcher is getting the British film treatment. London-based producer and distributor Pathe Productions said Tuesday it had commissioned a film about the former prime minister, set during the 1982 Falkland Islands war with Argentina.
Pathe said the film would cover the 17 days leading up to the conflict and focus on the Iron Lady's controversial decision to go to war over Britain's sparsely populated possessions in the South Atlantic.
Argentina, which claims the islands, invaded them in April 1982, and its troops were evicted two months later by a British task force.
More than 200 British soldiers and 655 Argentineans died in the war, but Britain's victory boosted Thatcher's flagging popularity.
Her Conservative Party went on to win the 1983 election by a landslide, and she remained in power until 1990, transforming British society with her free-market policies.
The Thatcher film has yet to be cast, and no director has been named.
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